Okay, now I'm impatient

Just saw this preview of Captain America 37.

Knocked Titans into second place on my Can't Wait For This! list, I'll tell you that! :)

The end of the month is going to be a long time in coming...

Looking forward to this even more now

The new comic I'm most looking forward to these days is Titans. Not because of this preview, although that looks all right. But...I'd assumed that this would be a temporary-at-best gathering of old friends, which would have been fine by me. What it says in the preview is:

A new team of Titans is born in the extra-sized first issue of a new ongoing monthly...! Someone or something is continuing its attack on anyone who’s ever been a Titan, including Nightwing, Starfire, Donna Troy, Beast Boy and Raven. You won’t want to miss this new startling chapter in Titans history that may forge a new team from the ashes of old, dead friends.

So, I didn't know it was an ongoing, and it is, which is pretty cool. And there's the potential for seeing at least part of the old New Teen Titans (which I read back in the eighties) together on a regular basis. I'm assuming that it won't be a case of reuniting the old group (though that would be neat as well) but I'm thinking that I'll like it. Although the "old, dead friends" bit does make me worry some...

Hey, potential cool!

Newsarama says that there's a delay on part of the Spider-Man "One More Day" thing. Which I hadn't been planning to get.

But if you go to the link and click on the image to enlarge it (or maybe you don't need to enlarge if your eyes are better than mine), you'll see, center right, a pic of the Valkyrie, who was my main reason for reading The Defenders back in the day. If there is a Valkyrie appearance coming up, I might have to check it out. That would be very awesome.

Despite the fact that the breastplates look ridiculous, which they always do because no one can draw them because they're historically inaccurate. :)

Oooh, cool!

An interview with Alex Ross about a new miniseries, Avengers/Invaders. After reading this, I am totally looking forward to seeing the youthful Submariner here.

So, something else to keep an eye out for when I'm ordering my comics.

Oh, and remember when I was talking about not minding dead comic characters being brought back to life? Here's a quote from the interview with Ross that relates to that:

That's the thing I hate about a lot of deaths in comic book publishing. I understand the drama related to some of those deaths, but in the real world we cannot control life and it's this fragile thing we loose so often. When you have a fictional world where all these toys in the toy box can be played with, why in the world would you limit yourself? Certainly we can create metaphors for the cruelty and sadness of the real world, but we don't always have to do it with icons there is great attachment to. If you can keep Clark Kent working at the Daily Planet for close to 70 years, then you can keep other likewise characters timeless and, honestly, in many ways, generations of people tied into the same communal source of entertainment.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Beautifully put.